Minnesota's Meyers Named Hobey Hat Trick Finalist - Big Ten Conference

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ROSEMONT, Ill. – Junior forward Ben Meyers of the University of Minnesota was named one of three finalists for the 2022 Hobey Baker Memorial Award, the Hobey Baker Award Committee announced today (Thursday, March 31). Meyer joins junior forward Bobby Brink from Denver and senior goaltender Dryden McKay from Minnesota State in the Hobey Hat Trick.

The three finalists were selected from the initial list of top ten candidates that included Michigan teammates Matty Beniers and Luke Hughes. Criteria for the award includes: displaying outstanding skills in all phases of the game; strength of character on and off the ice; sportsmanship and scholastic achievements. The 42nd annual announcement will be televised live on the NHL Network at 6 p.m. ET and streamed at hobeybaker.com on Friday, April 8.

A native of Delano, Minn., Meyers is the second Gopher Hockey player to be named a Hobey Baker Hat Trick finalist after Jordan Leopold in 2002 (the first year the final three candidates was announced) – Leopold went on to win the honor before leading the Gophers to a national championship that season and is Minnesota's most recent Hobey Baker Award winner after Neal Broten (1981), Robb Stauber (1988) and Brian Bonin (1996).

Meyers was named the 2021-22 Big Ten Player of the Year and a unanimous First Team All-Big Ten selection after leading Minnesota to the Big Ten regular-season championship (Minnesota's fifth in the nine-year history of the Big Ten Conference) and an NCAA tournament appearance for the second-straight year.

The U.S. Olympian has led the Gophers back to the NCAA Frozen Four for the first time since 2014 after winning the NCAA Worcester Regional last weekend. Minnesota's captain led the regional with four points (one goal, three assists) and scored the overtime winner against defending national champion UMass on Friday to earn a spot on the All-Regional Team.

Meyers leads Minnesota with 17 goals and 41 points (both career highs for the junior) in 33 games as the first Gopher to post 40 or more points in a season since All-Americans Rem Pitlick (45) and Tyler Sheehy (41) in 2018-19. In 101 games with Minnesota, Meyers has tallied 95 points (39 goals, 56 assists). Meyers has found the scoresheet in 24 of 33 games this season including 13 multi-point games.

A two-time Academic All-Big Ten selection (earning the honor every year he has been eligible), Meyers holds a 3.54 cumulative grade point average while majoring in entrepreneurial management in the Carlson School of Management.

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